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Some years ago, I watched a documentary film about animals and tools, which, of course, showed a chimp using a brown stick to root for insects. The next morning at work, I was getting a cup of coffee from the break room. While stirring the cream into my coffee, I giggled to myself. I thought, "Is this where thousands of years of evolution, of scientific discovery, of great advances in chemistry have brought us - using a brown plastic stick to stir our snacks?"